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DaveCinzano
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TPTV Encore | Talking Pictures TV
Fancy teatime with Christopher Lee? How about an Alastair Sim or Boris Karloff film? Or Runaround with Mike Reid? It's all on TPTV ENCORE. It's FREE and can be viewed on any internet enabled device.
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ah its this - they posted the wrong address! Classic
TPTV Encore | Talking Pictures TV
Fancy teatime with Christopher Lee? How about an Alastair Sim or Boris Karloff film? Or Runaround with Mike Reid? It's all on TPTV ENCORE. It's FREE and can be viewed on any internet enabled device.
www.tptvencore.co.uk
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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Includes stuff like...
Includes stuff like...
- Tread Softly Stranger
- Cat & Mouse
- Escape By Night
- The Narrowing Circle
- Power Play
- The Man In The Mirror
- A Hole Lot Of Trouble
- Desert Mice
- All Coppers Are???
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Lots more up on Encore Talking Pictures
I really recommend the Footage Detectives
...for some background on the channel, and how they find lost reels, restore them, and get to show stuff thats considered gone for good. I didnt realise it was such a labour of love behind the scenes.
Nice selection of Beatnik themed films here
From which enjoyed this broad comedy, band of thieves - run time 60 minutes, just right
a bit like Hard Days Night but set in a prison with a trad jazz band, with real clarinettist Acker Bilk (and his band) fronting
Supposeldy this track Stranger On The Shore was the biggest selling song of 1962! So this film wouldve been a Spiceworld of its time
"It spent more than 50 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number two, and was the second No. 1 single in the United States by a British artist."
I really recommend the Footage Detectives
...for some background on the channel, and how they find lost reels, restore them, and get to show stuff thats considered gone for good. I didnt realise it was such a labour of love behind the scenes.
Nice selection of Beatnik themed films here
From which enjoyed this broad comedy, band of thieves - run time 60 minutes, just right
a bit like Hard Days Night but set in a prison with a trad jazz band, with real clarinettist Acker Bilk (and his band) fronting
Supposeldy this track Stranger On The Shore was the biggest selling song of 1962! So this film wouldve been a Spiceworld of its time
"It spent more than 50 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number two, and was the second No. 1 single in the United States by a British artist."
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Books, not bombs
Available on the Iplayer, a David Lean film; some great names in it Great Expectations (1946)
some beautiful photography and atmosphere
some beautiful photography and atmosphere
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A380
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Tunes of Glory.
Never heard of this till a clip popped up on You Tube and they had the full film. Its not B &W though it feels like it should be, Alex Guinness and John Mills (plus a very young Gordon Jackson) both failing to come to terms with fighting in the second world war or being a POW. Great period piece.
Never heard of this till a clip popped up on You Tube and they had the full film. Its not B &W though it feels like it should be, Alex Guinness and John Mills (plus a very young Gordon Jackson) both failing to come to terms with fighting in the second world war or being a POW. Great period piece.
surreybrowncap
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a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
That's not really the plot though.
Guinness' character has everything his own way due, we assume, to a weak C/O. New C/O arrives. Power struggle ensues.
It's not a bad film but even with great actors they fail to carry off the rather far-fetched ending.
I have the DVD if anyone wants it.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I took it that Guinness was acing Battalion C/O through the war (he was an acting lieutenant colonel at the start of the film) and starting from the ranks with an alcohol problem had difficulty coming to terms with losing that when Mill's public school educated ex POW turned up. Mills on the other hand thought he was returning 'home' to his family's regiment after spending the war as a POW (presumably as a prisoner of the Japanese, the horrors of which just ever so lightly sketched in) but found rejection there as well.
Still deserves to be more widely known.
blossie33
trailer trash
Think I saw that on the TV years agoThis could be "good"
1939. Comedy. Starry Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. Old Mother Riley has an argument with a powerful landlord and is persuaded by oppressed tenants to stand on her soapbox!
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This could be "good"
1939. Comedy. Starry Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. Old Mother Riley has an argument with a powerful landlord and is persuaded by oppressed tenants to stand on her soapbox!
My great uncle and aunt.
From my dad.
“Old Mother Riley was Arthur Lucan who was married to Kitty McShane my mother’s sister. She played his daughter. (She was the boss …)”
Mrs Brown and her boys can get fucked. OG Irish drag FTW.
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My great uncle and aunt.
From my dad.
“Old Mother Riley was Arthur Lucan who was married to Kitty McShane my mother’s sister. She played his daughter. (She was the boss …)”
Mrs Brown and her boys can get fucked. OG Irish drag FTW.
I'm watching it now. I don't think I'm going to make it to the endMy great uncle and aunt.
From my dad.
“Old Mother Riley was Arthur Lucan who was married to Kitty McShane my mother’s sister. She played his daughter. (She was the boss …)”
Mrs Brown and her boys can get fucked. OG Irish drag FTW.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I'm watching it now. I don't think I'm going to make it to the end
It was of it’s time. lol.
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i made it to the end.
it had its moments for sure - its a fuck the bosses, fuck the landlords, parliament for the people bit of music hall - disappointing that it ends with blaming the lack of government money on foreign aid though < that was shit.
but overall Old Mother Riley herself is a pretty painful watch. Not one for a hangover, put it that way.
Wiki reckons theyre the first star drag act on the big screen (in the UK i presume, but who knows).
From an IMDB review: "One wonders what the seven minutes cut on reissue during the war contained, since it already contains plenty of home truths about life in thirties Britain"
There's a bit where her assembly meeting gets bricked by a stooge mob. I think it was Pickman's model who recently shared a link about how violent British elections used to be. Id like to see that link again, cant find it now.
it had its moments for sure - its a fuck the bosses, fuck the landlords, parliament for the people bit of music hall - disappointing that it ends with blaming the lack of government money on foreign aid though < that was shit.
but overall Old Mother Riley herself is a pretty painful watch. Not one for a hangover, put it that way.
Wiki reckons theyre the first star drag act on the big screen (in the UK i presume, but who knows).
From an IMDB review: "One wonders what the seven minutes cut on reissue during the war contained, since it already contains plenty of home truths about life in thirties Britain"
There's a bit where her assembly meeting gets bricked by a stooge mob. I think it was Pickman's model who recently shared a link about how violent British elections used to be. Id like to see that link again, cant find it now.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Not sure it was me but I'll have a check tomorrow
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Books, not bombs
I have just caught the rear end of this. To twist your list, it stars;Hell Drivers. How the hell did I forget that one???
Incredible list of actors:
Stanley Baker
Herbert Lom
Peggy Cummins
Patrick McGoohan
William Hartnell
Wilfrid Lawson
Sidney James
Jill Ireland
Alfie Bass
Gordon Jackson
David McCallum
Sean Connery
James Bond
Dr Who
The Prisoner
Danger Man
The Man From Uncle
& Hudson
petee
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"I Know Where I'm Going" is mentioned a few times above, here's a selection of clips, the first being a scene that stuck in my mind after the first time I watched it, when she begins to suspect that she may have made a mistake
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TCM links BANNED in the UK!"I Know Where I'm Going" is mentioned a few times above, here's a selection of clips, the first being a scene that stuck in my mind after the first time I watched it, when she begins to suspect that she may have made a mistake
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surreybrowncap
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I love Powell & Pressburger films..
petee
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well, you'll just have to move to the states!
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
You can read it as just a well executed romcom with an exciting turning point, but it's also about a choice between capitalistic values and older communal values. That's uncommon enough in film, but a lot of films against capitalist 'efficiency' etc are as subtle as a sledgehammer, whereas this is a lot more subtle by mostly presenting the alternative to it - the warmth and eccentricity of community, with only a few naked jabs at 'consolidated chemical industries'.
